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Rapped

Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

Rapped

Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (r[a^]pt), usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.]

  1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

    And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot.
    --Chapman.

    From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.
    --Sir H. Wotton.

  2. To hasten. [Obs.]
    --Piers Plowman.

  3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

    I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
    --Addison.

    Rapt into future times, the bard begun.
    --Pope.

  4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]

  5. To engage in a discussion, converse.

  6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.

    To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence.
    --Dryden. ``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.''
    --Chaucer.

    All they could rap and rend and pilfer.
    --Hudibras.

    To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.

    A judge who rapped out a great oath.
    --Addison.

Rapped

Rapped \Rapped\ (r[a^]pt), imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.

Rapped

Rapped \Rapped\, imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

Wiktionary
rapped

vb. (en-pastrap)

WordNet
rap
  1. n. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame]

  2. a gentle blow [syn: strike, tap]

  3. the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, tap]

  4. voluble conversation

  5. genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: rap music, hip-hop]

  6. the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: knock, belt, whack, whang]

  7. [also: rapping, rapped]

rap
  1. v. strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: knap]

  2. make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, knock, pink]

  3. perform rap music

  4. talk volubly

  5. [also: rapping, rapped]

rapped

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Usage examples of "rapped".

Zulkeh and Shelyid arrived at the palace door, upon which the wizard rapped imperiously with his staff.

Meantime the courier, whose presence seemed to be entirely forgotten, dismounted, and rapped softly at the door.

The travelling-coach, drawn by the six horses, rolled up to the door, and High-chamberlain von Schladen rapped timidly and begged leave to enter.

Passing the footman and hastening down the corridor, he rapped at the last door.

Yevgeny rapped his knuckles on the thick glass partition separating him from the two men in the front seat.

He preceded the visitor down a marble hallway and up a curving flight of stairs covered with a worn red runner, rapped twice on a door on the second floor, threw it open and stepped back to let Yevgeny through.

Finding the door ajar, he rapped on it with his knuckles and pushed through to discover Ebby sitting with his feet propped up on the sill.

A short matronly woman with coarse gray hair and a stethoscope dangling from her neck rapped her knuckles against the open door and walked in.

The Wiz swayed to his feet and rapped a knife against a bottle of wine to propose a toast.

Now, turning to the wall behind him, he rapped the grease pencil marks on the plastic overlay to bring everyone up to date on the progress of the five freighters ferrying Brigade 2506 toward the beaches designated Blue and Red at the Bay of Pigs.

The man rapped his knuckles on it twice, then produced a key, unlocked the door and stepped back.

Mossad agents rapped his knuckles on the window, pointed to his wristwatch and said something in Hebrew.

The two soldiers on duty, country boys from the look of them, were dozing in the guardhouse when she rapped on the window.

He walked up to the counter and rapped on it with the butt of the rifle, jerking the old woman out of a daydream.

Outside the tent the general rapped the sentries sharply on their helmets.